In 2020 as New York City was shutting down, Mark de Paola left for one year to pursue a personal project he had always yearned to have the time to complete. With much of his work grounded in the need for a complete team of hair, makeup, styling, and working models, he wanted to escape these boundaries and simply work with people without a pretense for the fashion industry.
What started as a one-year project focusing on the Monterey Peninsula, has now expanded into a grander narrative of the rewilding of feral women into a natural landscape stripped of etiquette, cultural pretense, and rules.
Feral opened as a solo exhibition in March of 2021 in Monterey, California. One year later, he brings to you a selection of his updated images to recontextualize the series' narrative.
This series is an ongoing project for the next few years to eventually be compiled into a forthcoming fine art monograph in 2024.
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXXVII, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate L, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LI, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LV, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LVII, 2019
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Mark de Paola, Plate LIII, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LII, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LIIX, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXXVI, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXXV, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LIV, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LVI, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXXI, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXXIIV, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate LIX, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LX, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LXI , 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LXII, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LXIII, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LXIV, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LXV, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LXIIX, 2021
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Mark de Paola, Plate LXIX , 2021
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Mark de Paola, Plate LXVI, 2021
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Mark de Paola, Plate LXVII, 2021
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Mark de Paola, Plate XI, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XIII, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XV, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XVII, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XX, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXI, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXIV, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXIX, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXV, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXVI, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXX, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXII, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXIIV, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXIV, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXIX, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXV, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXVI, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXVII, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXVIII, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXX, 2021
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXXII, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXXIV, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXXIX, 2022
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"The images for the Feral series are secondary to the incredible friendships that have come from building this body of work. Just last week I worked all day with someone and we took eight pictures. Every one of those eight pictures carried the weight of the entire day. There was nothing superfluous, and only the essential."
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The mud bath amongst the babbling creek was enveloped in their joyful and giggling laughter. Suddenly the landscape allowed them to be free enough to be children again.
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Artworks from the "Feral" Series available for purchase from Mark de Paola's studio.
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Mark de Paola, Plate III, 2020
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Mark de Paola, A Stab At Heaven, Production Still 3, 2020
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Mark de Paola, A Stab At Heaven, Production Still 4, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate I, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate IIXX, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate VI, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate VII, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate X, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XI, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XIII, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XV, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XVII, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XX, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXI, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXIV, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXIX, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXV, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXVI, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXX, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXII, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXIIV, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXIV, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXIX, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXV, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXVI, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXVII, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXVIII, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXX, 2021
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXXI, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXXII, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXXIIV, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXXIV, 2020
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXXV, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXXVI, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate XXXXVII, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate L, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LI, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LII, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LIIX, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LIII, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LIV, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LV, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LVI, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LVII, 2019
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Mark de Paola, Plate LX, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LXI , 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LXII, 2022
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Mark de Paola, Plate LXIII, 2022
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